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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3: Orientalism Now, Part IV: The Latest Phase.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When were the three volumes of Caussin de Perceval's Essai sur l'Historie des Arabes avant l"Islamisme, Pendant l"Epoque de Mahomet published?
(a) 1795-1800.
(b) 1856-1860.
(c) 1847-1848.
(d) 1892-1899.

2. What term used in the book refers to the exercise of absolute power, particularly in a cruel and oppressive way?
(a) Absolutism.
(b) Totalitarianism.
(c) Egalitarianism.
(d) Despotism.

3. The author asks in Chapter 1, "Can any other than a political master-slave relation produce the Orientalized Orient perfectly characterized by" whom (96)?
(a) Anwar Abdel Malek.
(b) Anquetil-Duperron.
(c) Raymond Schwab.
(d) Julius Mohl.

4. Who was the president of the American Oriental Society at its first annual meeting in 1843?
(a) John Pickering.
(b) Gaston Bachelard.
(c) Raymond Schwab.
(d) Julius Mohl.

5. What does the French term "idee recue" translate to in English (94)?
(a) A new idea.
(b) A revised idea.
(c) An accepted idea.
(d) An unaccepted idea.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote Ideen zur Philosophie der Geschichte der Menschheit?

2. Who wrote the poem "Mahomets Gesang"?

3. The author cites Lord Cromer in Chapter 1, saying that "the real future of Egypt ... lies not in the direction of a narrow nationalism, which will only embrace native Egyptians... but rather in that of" what (37)?

4. How many books are estimated to have been written dealing with the Near Orient between 1800 and 1950?

5. When did Lamartine begin his trip to the Orient?

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